{"id":34,"date":"2015-12-24T21:31:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T21:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurelantur.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/24\/2015-12-24-stories\/"},"modified":"2015-12-24T21:31:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T21:31:23","slug":"2015-12-24-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/24\/2015-12-24-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love children&#8217;s book illustrations. When my kids were little and I still read to them, I would stare at the illustrations while reading the nearly memorized lines. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I loved creating these small intimate paintings. They look like characters from a storybook. Grand and ridiculous.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>      <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/567c610c1c1210bb273f83a2\/1450991900699\/\/img.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m leaving a hint of a landscape in the background. I hope it adds to the feeling of a regal portrait.<\/p>\n<p>All of these characters are wrapped in a cloak. Not in an elegant way, but more like the burrito style my kids liked when they were small. I like having that space to play with organic patterns.<\/p>\n<p>      <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/567c6219a12f44019c971fe3\/1450992174424\/DSCN5498.JPG?w=900\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For this series of three, I was playing with the different red colors in a new set of paints. I love using red with its green compliment. Because I was layering colors, it is hard to tell that I was focused on the red.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>      <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/567c62b40ab37790ca4c770f\/1450992363783\/\/img.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hope you all have a wonderful holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love children&#8217;s book illustrations. When my kids were little and I still read to them, I would stare at the illustrations while reading the nearly memorized lines. &nbsp; I loved creating these small intimate paintings. They look like characters from a storybook. Grand and ridiculous.&nbsp; I&#8217;m leaving a hint of a landscape in the background. I hope it adds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}